[Lectura super V libris Decretalium]
Publisher: P[er] magistru[m] Joanne[m] de Amerbach.
Published: 1487
Place of publication: Impressa Basilee
Language: lat
Subjects: Canon law; Early works to 1800; Catholic Church
Work titles: Lectura super V libris Decretalium
Notes: Imprint from colophons.

Includes Antonius de Butrio, Super primo libro Decretalium, VII-XXVIII (part I, leaves [153 recto-228 verso]).

Parts I, II, 3, II, IV, and V are dated 1488; parts II, 1 and II, 2 are dated 1487.

Alonso Díaz de Montalvo's Repertorium quaestionum super Nicolaum de Tudeschis, edited by Ludovicus de Campis (ca. 1487-1488) is sometimes considered part VI and is often bound with this work.

Rubricated throughout.

Parts dated as follows: v.1) 1488; v.2, pt.1) 1487; v.2, pts.2-3, v.3, v.4, v.5, 1488.

With a supplement to v.1 by Antonius de Butrio.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, III 749

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P51

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 12315*

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 1163

Spines have manuscript shelf marks M24, M25, and M26 on spine panels painted gray; titles in manuscript on panels painted red.

Manuscript inscription, front flyleaf of vol. 1: "Hoc volume[n] cu[m] pluribus alijs donauit honlis Herbordus Wernycke ... Dulmania ord[inis] Charthusian[sis] ... [1508] .... "

Autograph of "A.D. Wagner" (Arthur Douglas Wagner) in each volume.

Book label of George Dunn, with his date of purchase in manuscript: "Aug. 1902"; his sale, Sotheby, Feb. 1914, no. 1393.

Copy 2

Bound with: Díaz de Montalvo. Repertorium quaestionum super Nicolaum de Tudeschis. (ca. 1487-1488)

Copy imperfect; part 1 only; leaf a2 mutilated.

With a few early marginal annotations.

Copy 1

Initials added in red, blue, and green, with extensions, at the beginning of each part.

In part 1, leaf 2b3r, there is a partial impression of an ink ball.

In three volumes bound in contemporary calf over oak boards, covers decorated in blind. Vellum pastedowns and endpapers in vol. 1; vol. 2 lacks front pastedown, shows manuscript offset; vol. 3 has front pastedown of manuscript waste, lacks back pastedown, shows manuscript offset.